Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Negroponte

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

Nicholas Negroponte

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Nicholas Sparks

Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

Natascha McElhone

Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

Muddy Waters

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

Mr. T

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Muhammad Ali

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

Muhammad Ali

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

Muhammad Ali

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

Mitchel Resnick

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

Mitch Miller

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't

Mikey Way

Big Day Out is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.

Mikey Way

Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change.

Marilyn Monroe

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Marian Wright Edelman

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.

Mark Wahlberg

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

Mark Kennedy

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

Mark Hoppus

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

Mark Hoppus

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

Mark Hoppus

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

Mark Batterson

I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.

Mark Batterson

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

Mike Candrea

I want kids who are going to go out there and compete, lay it all on the table. I think the big thing about this game is you have to care a lot about it.

Mike Candrea

I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.

Mike Carey

Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?

Nicholas Hoult

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

Ned Vizzini

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

Nathan Parsons

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Nathan Lane

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date

Nathan Lane

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

Naomi Judd

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.